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' J. C. SEMONES.'

BAGASSE PURNGE.

y Patented Sept@ 4, 1883.

INT/.EJVTOR .Attorney/S.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

JOHN C. SEMONES, OF MINDEN, NEBRASKA. 's A' v -BAGAssE-FURNACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,246, dated September 4, 1883,

` Application filed January 30, 1883. (No model.) v

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, Jenn o. sEMoNEs, a @aii zen of the United States, residing at Minden,

in the county of Kearney and State of Nebraska, Vhave invented a new and useful Bagasse- Furnace, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings used for evaporating sirup, `te

vertical transverse sectional view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the furnace, which consists of the sides B B, front wall, C, and rear Wall, D. `Thefurnaceis pro vided With a chimney, E, at its rear end, and its top is formed by the evaporating-pan F. The front-piece is provided with the usual ash-I pit door, G, above which is the usual fire# door,I H. s

, I is a transverse partition near the front of the furnace and extending about half-way to the evaporating-pan. Between this partition and the front piece are arranged `the grate-bars J, ,and in the said partition, under the gratebars, is a door, K, leading into a chamber, L, in rear of the ash-pit, which chamber receives its heat through the said doorway from the fire-chamber in the front of the furnace.

In the rear fwall, I), is a door, M, through which the bagasse is fed onto a drying-plate, N, that extends to the partition I and forms the top of the chamber L. Another plate or partition, O, extends from the top of the door M as far in the furnace as the plate or partition N, and these plates N and O form the feeding and drying chamber Q, into which the bagasse is placed through the door M. This top drying-plate, O, forms aheat-chamber, R, un der the evaporating-pan, and into this cha1nvber R opens the lchimney-flue lE. It will be observed that the chamber Q opens at its in- Y ner end onto the grate of the furnace. The

drying-plates N and `O are thoroughly heatedl by the fire of the furnace, which passes up through the chamber under the evaporatingpan to the chimney-flue, as indicated by the arrows. The bagasse or other wet fuel is fed through the doorM into the drying-chamber Q, and is completely dried therein by the heat of the fire-chamber, which is diffused through v a drying-chamber onto the fire, and such I do` not therefore claim, broadly, as of my invention. I

I claim as my inventionl The combination of the furnace having a cross-piece or partition near one end, from which extend the grate-bars of the fire-chamber, the longitudinally-extending drying-plate or partition arranged from an opening in theV rear end of the furnace to the said transverse partition, and forming a bottom heatingchamber, a corresponding plate or partition form ing the top of a central longitudinal chamber, and atop heating-chamber leadingto the chimney-flue, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN C. SEMONES. Witnesses:

E'. G. GoDEREY,

JENs H. JENsEN. 

